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AN 

ORATION, 

DELIVERED IN 

ST. PHILIP S CHUnCH, 

BEFORE THE INHABITANTS OP 
CHARLESTON, SOUTH-C;aROLINA| 

dN FRIDAY, THE FOURTH OF JULY, 1S17 

IN COMMEMORATION OP 

American Independence 5 

BY APPOINTMENT Or • 

THE '76 ASSOCIATION, 

And puUhhsd at the Request of that Sociefji 



7" 

BY BENJAMIN ELLIOTfEsq, 

h MEMBER OF THE '76 ASSOCIATIOJf, 



CHARLESTON:' 

PRINTED BY W. P. YOUNG, No. 44, BROAD-STREET^ 
t^ t^i i^. 

1817. 



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AMERICANS, 

THE Day of Freedom has again con- 
vened us — Proud are its recollections, delightful 
the duty it imposes. Now are we invited to give 
ourselves to the enjoyment of that sera, which an 
admiring World would emulate ; an asra that at 
once entendcrs, sublimates, and imparts those sen- 
timents, which both adorn and protect our ele- 
vated station. Valor has been commemorated— 
Hypocrisy has used the machinery of gorgeous 
festivals, to draw more closely the chains with 
■which a senseless multitude v^^ere already encir- 
cled. But never has the globe been dignified by 
a spectacle of loftier moral grandeur, than this 
hour presents. Here is a community who exult 
in the fulness of real bliss, yet remember it was 
won by virtue, and by virtue only can be retain- 
ed. Applauded by millions, yet unintoxicated 
with impious self confidence, they place the 
success of their counsels on the aid of him before 
whom strength is weakness, and human wisdom, 
folly. And, my countrymen, were there a peri- 
od, which could peculiarly evince your distinction,, 
this would be the period. Every section of 
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Europe v.'ritlies under distress, the triumphant 
are in misery, and the humiliation of the unfor- 
tunate is aggravated by the contrast of iheir 
former pre-eminence. S'iil Columbia remains 
imtarni^hi :(| — you, the one people who have never 
deserted the cause of man, or been visited with 
the curse of kings. Nature urges the enquiry, 
how shall we continue to ourselves, how ensure 
to our posterity, the beatitude vvc inherit ? Why, 
like the statuary, we mu*;t study a model whose 
perfections all acknowledge Our revolutionary 
ancestors are that political modtl. II ever one 
generation should bow to anothet, we should bow 
to them — to them a e we indebted for a condi- 
tion u'tsich renders the agf' of Saturnus no longer 
a poet's fable, Let us ihcn not only indulge, but 
cherish the feelings which lead through their his- 
tory. vSo often is pity touched at their suffer^ 
in^^^, hiph -minded ambiiion fo oiien is fired by 
their deeds, and philosophy so charmed at the 
profundity and bo'd devi lopements of their 
schemes^ that he, indeed, mu<t want a soui, who 
can knov^ the siory of '76, and not be an Ameri- 
can. 

In the revolution we discern every trait which 
lieloiigs to national greatness. Early were dis- 
played an unsurpassed intelligence and enthusi- 
asm All eitnrr> seem; d concentred on one object— 
the ema- (ipaiiun of their iountry. Oppression 
had but ptrpetrattd its Inst outrage, when a 
thou5.tad pioairaie iiierceiiaries on Bunker- hiU 



wrre an admcnitory proof fl.at the zeal of re- 
pubLtai'S would equal the tactics o {iovalists. 
li; rsher trials, and succeeding year ., maniicsted 
more brilliantly this cncouniging fact. Shrill we 
recal Trenton, \\here upv. irds o! nine hLindred 
Hessian alii syieldedto their suppose d captives? 
King's Mountan, where Shelby checked the tor- 
re 1, and turned invasion on the invaders? Ben- 
uington, where farmers conquered regulars, twice 
in one day ? Or Lincoln k pnrfuir, when Provost 
of old fied like Pre vost of Plattsburgh. The 
intuition of democracy levelled to insignificance 
the learning of monarchy. 

To the^e resplendent qualities, ^vas added a 
dauniles'-ncss, which viewed danger only as the 
Theatre of Fame. Moultrie was told " vour incom- 
plete fort will be blown down" — 'Mhen we'll con- 
quer amidst ifs ruins," was his re})lv. Vv'hen 
Tarlcton was beaten, militia, not mereK stood the 
bayonet, but led by our venerable Pickens, made 
an irresisiible charge through the n^ost awful fire. 
\Vhaf did not ' umpter achieve — that soul whom 
peril couid not intimidate, i or misfortune un-- 
lit rve ! How many have died in transport, under 
the colors of Independence. Vv as not this the 
spirit of llLme, of M'Donald ? And of how many 
nameless iv;aiN r, vvhomi capricioi;s fame will not 
allow us lo adote, but v>ho^e lives were voluntary 
oflering^ for our liberation? 

Anolhei trait, on which adc-iiration must dwell;, 
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is the magnanimity of these Heaven-souled pa«. 
iriots. Insulted by the opinions, incensed at the 
atrocines oftheir iicartless foe, yet never did they 
wantonly add mortification to his disasters. Even, 
Burgoyne, sent with the cannibal Indian to slaugh- 
ter, not only the warrior, but the babe, could not 
ibrce them to cruelty. Compelled to lay down his 
arms at Saratoga^, Gates with his comrades, would 
not even witness the humiliation, and the sympa- 
thies of friendship could not more have mitigated 
his sorrows, than did the unmeasured beneficence 
of republican hospitality — This sensibility to mis- 
fortune, was reciprocated by Cornwallis, in at- 
tempting to degrade the brave Lincoln, who with 
one third his number had stayed his approach for 
forty-two davs, at the nominal barriers of Char- 
lesion. His Lordship however, at Yorktown, was 
made to present ids sivord to the same Lincoln, 
and undergo his own prescription ; that he might 
be enabled to instruct his countrymen in the 
folly of expecling to humble a people, who de- 
light in no contest, but that of humanity. Often 
has the prisoner blessed th \nansion of his captor, 
and {ncsuO'cring hireling found himself cherished 
by the hand he was subsidized to destroy. 

But the virtue, tliat made every other more 
august, was a devotion to country, which adversity 
invigorated. Domestic case — the comforts, the 
grandeur of wealth were foreseen as the victims 
to be immolated. Events confirmed their an- 
ticipations yet each calamity, but incited to new 



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sacri^cies. Marion, driven from Ins home, ^^ns 
more than consoled, that the oak under which he 
slept, grew in the soil of liberty, and the roots, 
that subsisted him, were not the donation of a 
master. And the Patriot-sentinels of West Point, 
(tho* traduced by one, who boasts intimacy with 
the profligate convict) proved that poverty and 
America were preferred to opulence and tieach- 
ery. Our enemy, to break the spirit, violated 
every custom of civilization. Citizens were 
incarcerated in pestilential dungeons, called pri- 
son-ships, whence they were allowed to escape 
on the single condition, of being enrolled against 
their country. They chose death. When Barlov^ 
painted Britain, under the form of cruelty, pre- 
siding o'er these repositaries of horror, he afted 
the simple historian, fancy cannot deepen, truth, 
lierself, in detailing what was suffered, becomes 
incredulous and drops the pen. The last groans 
of our fathers was music to Englishmen, and it 
seemed a vi^lory, that their bodies had yielded, 
though their souls would never bend. Ignomini- 
ous executions were added, and murder was le- 
galized — The murders at Camden, the martyrdom 
in our own city on the 4th of August, shall never 
pass to oblivion, until we despise our freedom and 
merit chains. During these gloomy hours, the 
daughters of Columbia, feelingly illustrated, how 
the beauty of patriotism transcends the charms 
cf persons — The letes of joyous Britons were dis- 
dained, and the abode, where the continentalist 
pined in want, was their selected resort. They 



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^ladclenecl at every success of ifeir country and 
"when calamity came, cheered the anxious with 
those davs, when the banners ot America, should 
%vave, never again to droop, 

ir the virtue of our .ancestors expands the hearf, 
their policy cannot but illumine the judgment. 
Here indeed was philosophy ma e practical They 
resolved a scheme of, emancipation after a full 
study of the character of their constituents — of 
the cabinet to be opposed -and of tne danger-^ to 
be cncounfered The people Sf-emed to lead 
when Congress already had given the impulse. 
Tor every event they v«ere prepared, and when 
the tempest r ged, it had already been foreseen. 
The great enterprise was conducted bs these new 
statesmen, without once receding from a position 
to which ihey had advanced.— Whilst t'^e experi- 
enced ministers of Britain, never proceeded but 
in disgrace, and from the denunciation ol "un- 
conditional submission" were happy to 1 ave the 
colonies ireey sovereign, and independent states. 
This triumph of wi^^dom is the more interesting, 
fr©m having formed the epoch when man sav/ 
demonstrated his capacity for self government, 
Dickinson awakened his countrymen to their 
situation, and first shook the colonial despotism. 
Other luminous minds increased the approaching 
day, when arose the author of Common Sense. 
Fearless of the prejudices of ages, he urged Ame- 
ricans to prove to their species, that kings were 
sfiii6lionsj and the people who would be happy 



mnst regulate themselves — The hearts of repub- 
licans vibrated to the do6lrine ; and the felicity 
we boast is the comment on its correctness. It has 
been our mortification to see royalists, and the 
dupes of royalists, misuse the religious errors of 
this vahunble champion and fnend^ to sink his 
political truths. But we, I trust, will honor all 
whom our fathers honored. — Sacred be the name 
of each, who stood to the standard of Indepen- 
dence ; and tho* his frailties were as crimson, this 
alone were sufficient to efface them, and robe 
him in ermine. 

Ever to be guided by the principles of this a:ra, 
my countrymen, evinces both sagacity and grati- 
tude. Blessed as we are with the means: the dis- 
semination of such principles should be our pride. 
The Arts should resuscitate our heroes, who encir- 
cled with their resplendant deeds, would impel 
ourselves and our descendants to an hono- 
rable imitation. — Marble may become ani- 
mr.te in the cause of liberty, and point 
our youth the road to immortality. Already, 
Americans, have you conliructed to '76 two mo- 
numents more auguft, and not less permanent, than 
those of Egypt. — The code of fieedoni, our con- 
stitution is one. By it have been realized what 
seemed the ethereal dreams of philanthropy. The 
sages of antiquity were not allowed to see the gov- 
ernment which could make a people free, but not 
licentious — polished, but not effeminate — brave & 
magnanimous, enlightened and not supercilious. 

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Such a government America now presents, and 
tyrants, as they contemplate it, tremble at its 
splendors. 

Of similar grandeur, with the establishment of 
the constitution, is the late triumphant war. Here 
is a monument, at which distant posterity will 
glow, and by which we shall ever be instructed. 
All the hate, all the artifices, all the depravity, 
which were exercised against our fathers, aided 
by a similar tremendous disproportion of power, 
were brought against us. From the peace of '8$ 
Britain had established among us a deep Jesuit 
system, to throw into contempt sentiments of in- 
dependence — to make us either relapse into colo- 
nies, or separate into hostile communities, whose 
only polcy would be mutual misery and degrada- 
tion.— Henry's mission is one evidence; but that 
which renders ar:;ument superfluous is, the Hart- 
ford Convention. Here we saw the fruir, if be- 
fore we Houbtcd the existence of the deleterious 
tree. A coalition had trampled popular sovereign- 
ty in Europe, our ferocious enemy had become 
more terrible by a sudden accession of means, 
when an organized band of inflated aristocrats, 
leagued with envenomed tories, start up., deny 
arssistance, and recommend secession from the 
confederacy. Shall this ever be forgotten ? Not 
until experience cesses to be your guide. It was 
not a transient phrenzy, it was the test of a 
scheme planned by a foreign cabinet, to incite 
us to neli-desitruction, and prove that a republic 



was a chimEera, The vain hope of seeing' this 
magnificent continent the appendage oF a trans- 
atlantic island, never died, until the Hartford 
Convention exploded in impotence. The attempt 
is not to be lamented. But for this. Dexter 
would not have appeared, spurning the trammels 
of party, and impressing on the age, the devotion 
with which Americans bow to their laws. Holmes 
would not have beamed forth, dismaying the foe, 
and filling us with pride for the worth and talents 
by which we were supported. The deluded, 
themselves, indignant at their infamy, already 
declare their reform. Nor can the benefit be 
local. Every section of our empire, with an ela- 
tion that cannot be reprehended, will contrast its 
demeanor, and remain inflexibly true to the di- 
rections of patriotism. With what elevation may 
you review your condu6l, citizens of South-Ca- 
rolina. Yon did not call forth a pharisaic dastard 
to recommend you to the enemy for fervice.s 
against your own government. Your religion 
did not forbid encomiums on the heroes who bled 
for your fafety. "Your holy ministers did not 
sacrilegiously invoke the wrath of Heaven on 
your public guardians. — No — You selected as the 
chief of your state, a patriot who regretted he 
had but one life to expose for his country. An 
advanced corps you entrusted to another, with 
whom integrity and valor are inmates, and who 
in the field would have furnished Englishmen no 
strong considerations for gratitude. It is youi.- 
boast to have been eminently auxiliary in effect- 
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ing this " second struggle for Independence.*' 
Posterity will learn, with pride, that as in '76 so 
in 1812, every representative oF vSoulh-Carolina 
advocated hostilities against Britain. The enthu- 
siasm with which your monumental ramparts were 
reared, evinced the spirit oppofed alike to fub- 
rnission, to dread, to partiality. You are, my 
ffllow-citizens, guilty of being without one 
claim on the enemy's love. May you continue 
to merit her hatred, the irrefragable attestation 
of fidelity to America. 

With us. Gentlemen of the '76 Association, the 
inemory of those days will ever revive the noblest 
aiid most endeariiig recollections. Moved at (he 
trials, our republic was passing, we were cheered 
by the smiles, but never saddened at the way- 
Tvardncss o! fortune. Failure seemed but a ftimu- 
lant to a people, who we thought would not 
tolerate insignilicance and contempt. — The sen- 
timent has proved correct; hope has not been 
fallacious, and our bliss is complete in the bliss 
of our country. 

If the war has demonstrated that the councils 
of America, may be embarrassed by treason, but 
not discomfited, it will also impress in fulness the 
disposition of that enemy, who endeavored to 
enslave our fathers. Did any citizen ever ques- 
tion. Vvheiher England would use against us everj 
mean of destruction, his error is now dispelled. 
To ilu'ow into perdition the land of his nativity 



or adoption, he has seen Iier become the associ- 
ate of the negro, the pirate and thesavage. At Fer- 
nandina, citizenship was proffered to all who would 
assassinate their masters — the pirates of Barrataria, 
were invited to join Britons, as brethren in prin- 
ciple — in Fort Mims, 160 mothers, children, and 
fathers were consumed together at her insti- 
gation — and on the Raisin, the wounded helpless 
prisoner whom mercy would have cherished, was 
massacred by her allies, and then devoured by dogs 
and swine. But one atrocity seemed committed that 
uncertainly might never return — the conflagration 
of our infant-capitol. The tyrant imagined she 
had realized the wish of Nero, and at a blow could 
annihilate a people. But when the incendiary 
Englishman applied the torch, he lighted, in the 
heart of every American, a fire which may bright- 
en the world, with the flames of the execrable 
nation, that missioned him to the deed. 

This champion of religion, was indeed unrivalled 
in plunder, burning, and similar warfare ; but who 
was enwreathed with eternal laurels ? Not Britain. 
She titled herself mistress of Ocean, yet of 
sixteen combats, in which mutual skill was tested, 
the Republicans won fourteen.* — Of these two 
■were in squadron. We know of no superiority 
obtained by a fleet of the enemy — unless in the 
iinparallelled performance on the Serpentine — ■ 



* The following are the conspicuous engagements^ in Nvhith 
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but there the American ships were manned with 
Englishmen. 

To terrify and chastise us, the elite of her ar- 
my were pompously arrayed. They were scour- 
ged, and ch:ised home. When attacked they were 
beaten, and in most of their assaults they were 
foiled. Need Brown's sortie be recalled, the at- 
tacks on York and Fort George ? Canwe forget the 
transcendent defences of Fort Meig^, Sandusky, 
Ivl obi !e, Fort Erie ? Shall this day ever pass with- 
out revivino- the fame of Armistead ? Democratic 
Ealiimore was a suitable victim for royal venge- 

the naval skill of Britain and America was tested. In the 
terai loss, we include both wounded and killed. Thus in 
Warrington's victory over the Epervier, there were but two 
wounded in his ship, his whole loss. 

amehican victories. 



Amcriccii Vessels. 

Constitution 

Wasp 

United States 

Constitution 

rion?et 

IDecatur 

I.nterprize 

l.ake Erie 

peacock 

Wasp 

Wasp 

Lake Champlain 

Constitution 

14 Hornet 



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Decatur 


12 


Bainbridge 


34 


LavvTence 


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D'Iron 


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M'Call 


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Perry 


123 


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Dlakely 


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loss. 

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104. 

210 
40 
60 

39 
160 

21 

65 

44 
194 



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Frolic 

Macedonian 
Java 
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Boxer 

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Reindeer 

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ance. It was thought republicanisiii would crouch 
to inonarchy ; but the undaunted Ealfimoreans 
*' made a demonstration" that the eagle oMiberty 
shall hover victoriously o'er the lion oftlespotism. 
For lour and twenty hours the atmosphere flamed 
with the vindictive cannonade. Yet when the 
inorning dawned still 

The star-spangled banner, in triumph did wave, 
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. 

But what seraph shall descend to speak the 
glories of Orleans. Jove did not hurl the 01) m- 
phian thunders, nor did Mars mingle in a conllicl, 
immortal as that of his own Ilium ; but thou, 
inconquerable genius of America, thou wcrt at 
once the God of War, and avenger of the wrong- 
ed. The whirlwind is meek, the torrent slow, 
compared with the band that rushed from the 
Alleghanies. Children of peace, they but saw 
the invaders, and became soldiers. Three limes 
did the disciplined myrmidons of Britain advance 
in desperate column — each time (he earth was 
strewed with the enemies of the Kepublic. Europe 
was benighted in tyranny, when burst forth this 
star, attesting, one nation yet shone, who would 
never bend to Kings. 

In this resistance to your unchangeable foe. 
My Countrymen, you have shewn yourselves 
worthy your descent. Cheering must it have 
been to the f«w revolutionary fathers, who remain 
with us — they m.tist now feel that thcv have toil- 



ed and lived for great purposes. — And yet the 
biiss of their posterity is not the sole cause of 
their holy exultation. The revolution has exal- 
ted the world. At it became emulous, that nation 
which seems sacred to Mars, the Loves, and Miner- 
va. Frenchmen learnt in the camp of Washington 
that the soldier's highest renown was gained in 
the battles of freedom. At their own court, in 
Franklin and Jefferson, they saw, splendidlyillus- 
trated, how republicanism was adorned with sci- 
ence, patriotism, and c^enius. The great people 
of Europe moved, and every crown shook. Ty- 
rants conspired, and the tri-colored flaw; waved 
o'er their submii-sive capitols. Domestic ambi- 
tion and forri"!! artifice convulsed, and but dis- 
memberc'Jthe new empire. Bonaparte appeared, 
fr.cfion vani^ihed. He flew abroad, the anointed 
cohered as he swooped, and were exposed in Jegi- 
iimate noihingncss. The groans of modern 
Britons — the l applications of all Europe, pro- 
claimed that tlie confederates of Pilnilz were 
o'erwhelmed by iheir own tempest. Prodigies 
were his daily acts, when fortune struck him 
from her roll. Yet a nighf had scarce passed, 
the revelries of his inebriated inferiors were not 
closed, v^hei), like Fhcebus, he ajain fired the 
horizon, covering with his beams a gazing world. 
Again has Providence allowed this great charac- 
ter, and his great country, to sink together. Le- 
gitimacy dreads lis name, and would extinguish 
his being. Policy, impotent and senseless ! Can 
the sods thu hwvy the limbs of Napoleon, bury 



Ms fame ? A spot may contain his body, his 
yenown — -the Universe barely holds. 

An amiable sensibility makes us partake the 
afflictions of one, so idenfided with a people to 
ivhom we desire the highest prosperiiy. Circam- 
stanccs, however, emauaie from his late, at whicli 
every American should awake. The discomfiture 
ol a French army has been mistaken for the an- 
nihilation of the human mind. \^ e are toldj man 
has no rights, but God created him the property of 
Kings. Jt is even said equality was not designed. 
between those who acquire, and those who inherit 
crowns. This may be correct. Ccesar, Cromwell, 
and the greater Kapoleon, cannot be equalised witri 
*' Mr. Guelph, and his profligate sons." Of what 
benefit has monarchy been to our race? Why is 
the old world fl} ing under the wings of the new ? 
To escape Kings. Are they essential to the de- 
fence of nations ? Their armies are always van- 
quished by republicans. Greece proved this. Svvis- 
seiland proved it at Morgarten. France at Ge- 
mappe, Fieurus, Hohenjinden and Marengo — and 
two triumphant American Wars substantiate the 
assertion. Is monarchy inspiring? Why then, 
have they, who have inpsired the world by 
their genius, been remarked for a contempt 
of Kings ? So felt the empyreal-sou led Aliieri. 
So, in France, Montesquieu, Voltaire, D'Alom- 
"bert, Carnot. In England, i\iiUon, Sidney, Locke. 
And in our own country! — in our country, I trust, 
it is the single sentiment ; for were there a thing 



so vile as an American who admires monarchy, 
it would be a thing formed to rrawl on earth; 
and Earth herself would shrink at her own 
debasement, when knowing this was her true off- 
spring. 

Our present relation (o the world, would alone 
characterize Anieiican Independence, as ano- 
ther salvation. But for this solitJiry asylum 
would not cur feliow-beings, be involved in 
the tartarean blackness of despair ? What loftier 
honor, shall national pride desire ? Protector 
of man, comforter of misfortune. Such is our 
country, already admired in infancy — but only 
time c-ATt develope her grandeur — How vaft 
thatnutnber, who, hereafter, like us, will hail this 
immortal day ! Activity, intelligence, and the 
produ61ive arts are the aq;ents of population. 
We have seen them give France 174 inhabitants, 
to the square mile, the Neiherlands 2i?2, and 
Holland the prodigious average of 275 Emi- 
nently operative as they are in America, 
possessing as she does upwards of two mil- 
lions of square miles, and eftimating 150, to 
the square mile, her full growth will be con- 
stituted byTiiREE HUNDREU MILLIONS OFFREEMEN. • 

I^ussja's empire, the great empire of Na- 
poleon, never exceeded forty-five millions. 

Afionishing as will be thf magnitude of our 
|:opulationj not less alloni&hing is the rapiditj 



with which it will be attained. In 1607^* one 
hundred in the Wilderness of James Kiver, were 
all the inhabitants of the present United States. 
In 1701, they reached two hundred and sixty- 
two thousand, and are at present, about nine 
millions. Will not the two centuries ensuing^, 
then, give us our entire amount ? 

Aaothcr trait in our political futurity will be, 
the more complete amalgamation of thesa states, 
into one community. We were unnerved with 
the dread thctt our union was transient. Europe 
presented hostile clans, combined and converted 
into mighty nations ; and yet we were taught 
that colonies affiliated by interest, affection, 
sympathy, could not harmonii::e. Tlie world was 
seen fraternised by commerce, and we were 
told, that the Patomac should only echo the 
cannon, and redden with the blood of the 
North against the South. This, with other colo- 
nial prejudices, is disappearing. Union has 
become a national sentiment, and will be more 

^J-'rugresiive J'upulation of the Lnued >>(utes. 



YEAR. 
1607 
1620 

1660 

1 701 

177^- 

1790 



INUMBER. 
100 

2,300 

85, 000 

262,000 
i,o53>o-o 

2,141007 
3.929,3^6 

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Chalmers. 
Chalmers. 
J Chalmers, and 
^ Spairord's i^-. York, 
Rev. Dr. HumphreySc 
Provincial Census. 
Gov. Fownall. 
United states 
Census. 



to 

ador?d by our children, than even by ourselves. 

Yet the most bcautifui asp!?!ct of the new 
world, ever will be, her doniestJc beatitude, and 
disregard of ambition's enticeraeDts. II the 
amiable man, blessed by his consort, encircled 
with his innoceiitts be the spectacle in which 
the blessed delight ; how shail the world be 
affected'at beholding the greaiest nation, the 
35iOot harmless, and occupied only in exJending 
fcUcity ! What has been like this ? Conquest is 
hateful, science frivolous, coniTiared to such 
glory. In thy domain only. Father of Love, shall 
we see the prototype of America's emulation ! 

Note continued. 
Population of ench of the oKi Staves in 1 701, according to 
the Kcv. Dr. rluiDphrejs — and in iJjlA, accordiiio; to the Pro- 
vincial Census. 





I 701 


I7A0 -: 


Massachusetts 


70,000 


220,CX)0 


Conncciicut 


30,000 


1 00,000 


Ebode Isiaud 


10,000 


35^000 


Kew Hainjishire 


1 0,000 


30^000 


l\ew-Yoik 


30,000 


100,000 


Kev/-Jersey 


15,000 


6o,coo 


Pciinsyivania 


20,000 


.150,000 


J\iar Viand 


?. 5,000 


35,000 


Vir^>inia 


4 J, 000 


85,000 


Korth-Curolina 


5,000 


45,000 


South-Carolina 


7,000 


30,000 


Georgia 




o,coo 


6,000., 


Louisiana 


o,coo 


7,000" 



Tola! 262/000 J^053,ocQ 



Bligliting to arbitrary govern in cnt, as would 
be this spectacle, '* this mischievous example of 
democratic rebellion," intrigues against our tran- 
quillity might be apprehended. But Providence 
here gives one of the brightest manifesfaiions of 
her benevolence towards her favorite children. E- 
vcn kings are made instrumental in chf-rishing 
America. Our navy has avenged Europe, and 
every monarch of the continent is elate at its 
success. Britannia rules the waves, was rung to 
their humiliation, and felt in their most peace- 
ful concerns. Was any kingdom enriching it- 
self vath domestic establishments, or opening 
Bcw sources of opulence abroad ? The jealousy 
of this island intruded, their towns were battered, 
their commerce desolated. Britannia no longer 
rules the waves. Your skill, your heroism have 
annihilated her odioitsfame. When Hull coolly 
i assailed the ^ucrriere, and made her cower be- 
I jieath his baliners— to many it seemed a deed 
not to be repeated. From Champlain and Eiie, 
from the Southern Seas and African coast, ascen- 
ded new beams of American pre-eminence — it 
then shone but as the lirststar of a galaxy. And 
when we recall the inexperience of many who 
have given celebrity to their republic, our admi- 
ration augments. Thus no victory was more 
resplendent than the capture of the Boxer, by 
our young townsman. Never had lie witnessed 
ji conilict, the brave Bwiirroughs lay slaughtered 
before him, yet with veteran composure he 
fliakes the war- work proceed, and ^ives the 

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Union a token that Gadsden and Moultrie yet 
live in their countrymen. 

Our Naval skii! is appreciated by European 
statesmen as tlieir best security. May not Ame- 
rica then, ere this century shall close, lead a 
maratime coaiifion to the shores of Britain, car- 
ry retribution to tyranny, and restore to man 
his long-usurped domain? — Such events are 
evolvino — and with delight may thepatriot advo- 
cates of tnis establishment contemi-date the ful- 
filment of tlieir predictions — ^justly may they 
share it^ loiry renown, and claim applause lor 
the beatific revolution it is destined to effect. 

Grateful as is this perspective abroad, not less 
cxhilirating are domestic changes already begun. 
The United States have unalterably determined 
the esfa lishment of Manufactures. Indepen- 
dence is then safe. — Arts will be introduced — va- 
riety ottered to cverv species of talent — union 
confirmed — foreign infUicnce superseded. *Great- 
er minds nevi r guided a nation than those who 
have urged ihis polity. Irom the first move- 
ment of liberty it was recommended as a mean 
both of opiilence and protection. What has 
already been per'ormed is a rich exhibition of 

* Among the inany able prodJctions enfjrcing the policy of 
America's ctabii-'hing ivianufacUires, see Dr. Rusli's Address, 
1775. Kamilton's Meport, I7;^r. Gallatin's Report, iSio. 
Coxc's Digest, 1S12 ; and .-^ainpson's eloquent Address or 
behalf of the New-York A3S'>.ci.;Uon, 1S16. 



our fDpacity^ ainl the unyielding:; pciseverprre 
of Americans will rcver be cvricdn e by the 
stratagems or com|etition of a vigilant rJNal. 

One improvement mr re is vvjinfing to give 
our cGuntrv that disiinctive tlKnactcr, that 
splendid influence fully within h' r acquisi- 
tion — a national svstcm of national (ducaiicn. 
We established the <Tra of rejuibliciu ism and are 
inundated with Monarchicil doc?rines. Pariicu- 
tariy with the doctrines oi'that nation ^^-hodesirea 
our humiliation. But, mv countrymen, why 
should yon bend to Britain ? Ameri a surpasses 
her in her political institutions, to America has 
she struck her (big, on the land and on 'he ocean, 
and France is a (entiiry beyond her in civiliza'ion. 
f se those powerful racuhies, those wondrous, 
advantages with which nature has designated you 
for greatness, and this inf Uuation passes, — Feel 
your destinies. Mere is th • hope, here is the 
pride of man. It must not sink. Letuscherisb 
science as our friend, venerate religion as oui? 
guardian, and give to freedom a lasting abode. 




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